Padraig Reidy

A reader alerts Little Atoms to this scary vision of Corbyn's Britain*/not very funny 80s sitcom. Aired in 1986, Comrade Dad was set in a future Britain (USSRGB) which had been taken over by the Russians and was now run by the Communist Party undfer its glorious leader, VS Hoskins. The title character, played by the recently deceased George Cole, is very enthusiastic about the regime: the other characters less so.

Much to our surprise, the Swedish beard club mistaken for Islamic State story appears to be true

.... Propaganda for the guy you like is still propaganda

Mother Teresa is a weapon in the Vatican's war on women

Watch Douglas Adams tell The Greatest Story Ever Told

.... Why British politicians can't stop mentioning the war

.... Is this problematic? Is it? Who knows?

From Brexit to football, nationalism is an impulse, not an end

.... Stories of deathbed conversions are as old as Christianity

Aleppo on brink of starvation, White Helmets chief tells UK parliament